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The wound to her neck narrowly missed major arteries, which could have led to fatal blood loss if they had been cut, the court heard.

This allows her heart to deflate, allowing the "very tricky" procedure to detach part of her heart - the right ventricular outflow tract - and the pulmonary artery from where it has stuck to her skin.

The driver was hit in the torso, and a major artery was severed in his arm.

The parents of a three-year-old boy who died from severe bleeding after his artery was pierced during surgery said they spent 12 months fighting for answers about what happened.

The group managed to get Moose back outside, but Lowe thought the dog might have nicked an artery in his arm, which was “squirting” blood, he said.